Glacier National Park – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

As close as humanly possible

paperback book — Top line: “A deep exploration of a life lived as close to nature as humanly possible.”

As close as humanly possible.

In other words, as far away from humans as humanly possible.

Or, as far away from convenience as humanly possible.

Or, as close to our origin story as humanly possible.

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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.

You are free to reprioritize

Disney Cast app screenshot — It won’t be long before these are party of two reservations. Maybe.

You are free when you can instantly rattle off your priorities, in priority order.

If you are there now, sweet!

If not, today is a new day.

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Are you contagious?

Parents/Family Weekend at college offered several informative sessions.

Thinking in five year terms is poignant when planning for retirement. How will you continue to use money once you no longer earn a paycheck.

We are so used to living day to day and week to week.

Moving to year to year or decade to decade, we must think radically differently.

High odds we do not have a role model or coach who gifts us with a crystal ball.

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Relentlessly organized

Six people wearing masks in a hallway — College employees who happen to be Disney advocates.

They took us “backstage” in their operation.

Told them it felt like they were taking us down into their “tunnels”.

With 66 combined Disney years of service, Cheryl and i only know one way to do things.

The Disney Way stands out.

We are not trying to stand out, it simply comes with the territory.

Disney is relentlessly organized. We are similarly organized. Disney prioritizes their (our) priorities.

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Rules exist to solve recurring, common issues

Sheraton Hotel quiet hours poster — This is a common courtesy.

Rules exist to set expectations for living within a fair and equitable community.

Your home – which sometimes is a hotel room – is your sanctuary. It is literally the only place that makes sense for you to do as you please.

The caveat, your behavior should never interfere with your neighbors sanctuary.

Want to make late night hotel noise? Stay in the bar or the banquet room until it’s out of your system.

Drunkenness is rude when you inflict it on sober people.

Ps. As an alcoholic from 1973 to 2001, i can intelligently and expertly comment on this.

Pss. Technically still an alcoholic, now going on 48 years. But on December 31, 2001, i stopped ingesting alcohol.

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